Hey Andrea Mitchell! You are being challenged to ask probing questions of Hillary Clinton in the wake of FBI Director James Comey's scathing report about her State Department emails yesterday. Is it some "vicious rightwinger" calling out Andrea Mitchell? Nope. It is Erik Wemple of the Washington Post who has urged the mainstream media in general, and Andrea Mitchell in particular, to 'slam Hillary Clinton over emails':
In his remarks, Comey made clear that he was departing from protocol in releasing such details, thank the lord of transparency and accountability.
Now: Andrea Mitchell and all of her peers in the media need to have some more sit-downs with Hillary Clinton: How could you ever make these representations? We’re talking about 30,000 emails here — how could you have been so sure about what you’d sent and received? Do you question the FBI’s findings? You said this over and over and over again, by your own admission — did you ever have a moment when you thought it wasn’t true?
Don't hold your breath, Erik, waiting for Andrea Mitchell to perform a significant interrogation of Hillary Clinton. Here is how Newsbusters' Managing Editor Curtis Houck summed up Mitchell's attitude yesterday:
NBC News Clinton campaign correspondent Andrea Mitchell anchored her MSNBC show from Charlotte and spent the hour repeatedly complaining and lamenting with an array of guests that FBI Director James Comey’s announcement about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal has overshadowed the Clinton/President Obama rally and that it was supposed to be “the day” of days.
Since Andrea Mitchell continues to act more like an unofficial member of the Hillary campaign than a real journalist, it is kind of hard to picture her asking Hillary probing questions on this matter.
